Returning to One of My FAVORITE Countries in Europe (After 7 Years) 🇷🇸

[@planetjames95]

Sorry for being MIA! More videos to come...

[@Dr_Enoch_Metatron]

Great. Looking forward to the videos

[@leszekleszek773]

Hope everything is alright

[@johngorentz6409]

Glad to hear it! Last night I broke the news to my wife that you had disappeared. (I tell her about your videos now and then, especially when they're about places we've visited together.) Now I can let her know that you're back.

[@kris2455]

We were worried considering the last video was from Ukraine where Russians bomb civilian targets daily

[@joannawolanin427]

Glad you're back

[@eurkrj2609]

Tell us more. What happened in-between your last video and this one. Where is your wife and child? Did you move from Warsaw to Belgrad for a long(er) time?

[@annagruszecka9176]

Just wondering if you are ok. You didn't do any video for some time. I hope everything is OK in your life.

[@zzlatkovicm]

Serbian and croatian are like UK english and american english, so the same. We understand each other 100%. Same with bosnian and montenegro. But, slovenian, well thats like russian and polish so not the same.

[@oliviag557]

Thank you for sharing your beloved city. It is truly a very beautiful place. Best wishes to you and your family.

[@BR-wv5hm]

Great video James. Belgrade is probably one of most underestimated capitals of world and certainly of europe. In forthcoming period belgrade is going to shine and become first choice to settle and live safely. Truly cosmopolitan and safest city with scars from past and turbulent history Cheers

[@leszekleszek773]

Long time no see! ;) I also like Serbia! When I was student I used to travel to Balkans from my hometown Krakow via Budapest and then on the board of "Belgrade Special" train overnight to this very special country :). I'd love to remake this tour to feel the same way once again...

[@DanielRamirez-mh6jz]

Wow 🎉 happy to see you here again! 👏🏼👍🏼

[@aviadilo]

James, I'm surprised that you, being a Ukrainian, visited a staunchly pro-Russian country like Serbia and call it one of your favorite European countries. Since the start of the invasion, the only pro-Russia demonstrations in Europe have taken place in Belgrade. In contrast, Yugoslavia during the time of Tito was proud to be independent of the Soviet Union.

[@BM-ur4je]

Exactly!

[@pariahgoldi4692]

How do we know he is really Ukrainian by heart, he could be pro -russian as well ?! James, You never told us.

[@SuperElborbah]

James? Where are You?

[@Kamil-dk6ck]

James is back! :O Are you still in Poland?

[@jelena7439]

I rarely watch entire videos on youtube, especially if they are as long as this one. But somehow I very much liked your manner of speaking and filming, so I watched the whole video and enjoyed so much!! This kind of casual talk and walk around the city is very cool and interesting to watch. Keep up the good work, well done!

[@BetulaPendulax]

Jak ktoś nie ma paszportu UE to raz na (chyba?) pół roku musi wyjechać na trochę poza strefę Schengen. Czy między innymi dlatego James wyjechałeś?

[@hokhmah]

Poważnie? Takich pytań się nie zadaje.

[@BM-ur4je]

B. słuszne pytanie.

[@mateuszbensz6109]

Good to have you back. I've been really worried about you.. Thanks for this new video from your journey :)

[@qwertzxcvb7724]

do Polski nie wracasz?

[@maqic1979]

What the story James, how are you?

[@MichaelThomas-ys7zr]

That burger was a Western burger, small and expensive. Serbian burgers are about 4x the size and half the price. Don’t order a triple Serbian burger, you will never finish it.

[@davidmoser3535]

James we all hope you, Marina, and Nicky are well. All the best.

[@mikewojnar6254]

Glad your back my friend!😊 How is Momma and the little one doing?

[@dzonikg]

Belgrade best in spring and summer..not so in winter

[@robertkukuczka9469]

I am missing your videos.

[@TelegaNickLondon22]

Hi, you can check out Kalemegdan, Zemun, Novi Beograd, also there is now a fast train to Novi sad only 30 min, worth checking it out!

[@goransukovic8703]

First frames are not filmed at Dorcol. This area is called Kosancic. Over Sava. Dorcol is downhill from Republic square towards Dunav. That dark building you liked is deep Dorcol.

[@LordHaveMercy]

Lovely. Reminds me a lot of Kharkov, but with a more Central European vibe.Would love to visit.

[@adamekelcholista359]

Are you still in Serbia? If yes you definitely have to visit the area called Vojvodina. Cities like Novi Sad or Subotica are really avesome. Cities and towns in Vojvodina looks much better than those in historic Serbia in my humble opinion.

[@mikeski2908]

James where are You?

[@michellesunshinestar]

You finally showed up on my feed again. You changed your channel name? It's so cold here 35 degrees F.

[@jjaybee5484]

James are you OK? You're silent for so long...

[@mguzjebesku2591]

Nice presentation. I'm Slovene, but have never been in Belgrade yet. Maybe someday 🥰...

[@land4andre]

We do not know anything about History of Serbia, because it's always twisted by the foreign enemies of Serbians. They do not have many friendly countries and their friendship to Russia is pictured as very bad association for others in Europe. I love Serbians and we should make good publicity for them whenever possible if we can.

[@ZaneR3183]

Serbian, croatian same language.

[@Dr_Enoch_Metatron]

Great brother. I wanted to go there but didn't go yet. Thanks for the video

[@garrett3338]

Welcome back James!

[@majdavojnikovic]

that's not dorćol, dorćol is on the other side of the main shoping street, this is kosancicev venac.

[@beverlypearson5332]

“Huge and powerful nation that fractured…” I hate to say it, but that might be said about the US not too long from now.

[@Crowmother13]

Was wondering if you had been experiencing some sort of tragedy! Where have you been ?

[@beverlypearson5332]

Glad to see you back! You had us worried.

[@andrewplck]

He's alive!

[@ZeljkoCancarevic]

Welcome back :-) Happy stay in Serbia.

[@EvanRamani]

Glad you're alright! 👏🏼have fun.

[@EvanRamani]

burgers in Belgrade = #1!

[@przewoz83]

16:30 - dość długo wytrzymał do wspomnienia o balkonach :)

[@jazyje74]

Obsesja. Ale fajna! Ja zawsze patrze na drzwi...

[@pamelajaye]

Every time I see a balcony these days, I think of James :-) there are some pretty ones on that peachy building near the beginning. They are rounded and seem to have either decorations or plants.

[@Anna-eS.]

Good to see you again, James. I was worried!

[@ankadomanska5240]

Also! Pozdrowienia z Warszawy🍀

[@robertkukuczka9469]

How are you and your family these days?

[@pamelajaye]

I remember the other thing I wanted to say: THANK YOU for the on screen Celsius to Fahrenheit conversions! :⁠-⁠)

[@nie_dotyczy]

Oh please, this is ridiculous

[@Rhakio]

Long time no see ;)

[@europa258]

Is there a metro system in Belgrade?

[@lilupapi]

I’m pretty sure they left Poland.

[@ramfrancisuk]

I was wondering what happened to you last week

[@robertkukuczka9469]

Where is the sequel?

[@pamelajaye]

It was nice to have known you. Today I searched for your channel and I got a bunch of planets. If I wasn't subscribed, I wouldn't have found you at all. Not that you have been here. But I know a lot more Russians now... (I don't think that was the goal) Hope things are doing well and everyone is still alive. (Considering the situation, it's not necessarily the case)

[@konradszmeil654]

It's great to see you again.

[@Vetiver999]

I miss your videos, but I totally understand that time with your new family member is precious and you need more privacy now. Take your time and when you will decide to return I will be more than happy 😊

[@paraniidnyc]

Hope you, Marina and your toddler(?) are doing well. Missing your updates.

[@klausbruner1392]

Yesss welcome back🎉

[@StudiofrogPl]

look who is back :D

[@beverlypearson5332]

Now that I’ve had a chance to finish this video … thank you for the history lessons! I knew almost nothing about that part of the world. Now that I’m old, I can’t travel over there (from the US), so I look for videos like this to educate me and show me the sights. How are Marina and the little one? Girl or boy?

[@slobodanstojanovic8125]

Zdravo brate, i live in those white buildings on the Danube bank/Dorćol

[@KapitanEuropa]

It's nice to see you Bro!

[@MrSzwarz]

Your burger and chips, are more expensive then in London ; ) It reminds me Warsaw 30 years ago...

[@maciekwr]

Welcome back!

[@planetjames95]

Thanks Mac!

[@anneabbott9212]

Oh Wow. So nice to see you. I Have been concerned about you all with no way of contact. Please come on just to say hello 🙏🙏

[@PlanetaryCitizen]

I don't like the way they are supportive of Russia, but I would definitely like to visit the country. It's on my bucket list!

[@curious.lad.369]

Serbia is neutral. People have freedom of opinions, there are groups of people who support russia there are groups who support ukraine. As a country serbia respect territorial integrity of ukraine and international law, unlike many nato countries that dont respect international law and integrity of serbia.

[@ventilatorbgd]

​@@curious.lad.369 Serbia is not neutral its pro russian not because of russia but because west is sick not only because of using ukraine as instrument toward russia while hundreds of thousands of people die, but also because of those sick sexual liberal and antichristian satanic agenda that nobody with clear mind would agree, and specialy those who saw what they did in yugoslavia, syria, iraq, libya and currently yemen, people died in millions and nobody cared, people saw in direct what they are capable of.

[@pamelajaye]

I meant to add that I really like your videos because you always point out the buildings and what kind of buildings they are. I mean I could say architecture but that sounds kind of highbrow for me. Soviet buildings or other kind of buildings I guess. :-) I don't know if I ever mentioned that Boston City Hall is Brutalist. (Not sure what form of that word to use). At least it's white and not gray. Doesn't mean it's not ugly but I guess it is possible that it could have been more ugly :-) A friend sent me a Facebook message today to tell me that Russia bombed Poland. That's not quite exact but it was kind of interesting considering my brother was also going to call me "as soon as [he] got outside." If anyone is still holding their breath, apparently Russia missed Ukraine - which is really difficult because it's a really big country - and managed to kill two people in Przewodów. My friend also told me that World War 3 was trending on Twitter.

[@sasat.zlatanovic4627]

I enjoyed your video very much

[@fridaburlin]

Thank you James for updating 🙏

[@tnickknight]

Serbia is a pretty country, but horrible government and mentality. I prefer Poles which have a more German like attitude than Russian.

[@brankovucetic4448]

Serbs have mentality like Greeks. Serb are not like northern nations...Russians etc. More like Greek,Italians,Spanish people etc.

[@brankavujasin4381]

Svaki narod ima dobre i lose strane.Tako i germanski narodi.

[@tnickknight]

@@brankavujasin4381 true, but Serbia has a particularly more vile government at the moment. The people need some serious reflection on their actions. If Serbis were to modernize, respect human rights, and the rule of law. I know I and others would be very positive to Serbia

[@ogimati5175]

Like someone cares what you prefer... 🤣🤣🤣

[@tnickknight]

@@ogimati5175 you do that's why you're here crying 😂😂

[@wadysawkostrzewski8557]

what a beautiful balconies

[@Lameerei]

why not Bosnia :(

[@mariuszstopa903]

I like Serbia too.😎

[@pamelajaye]

Hi! You're alive! Missed you. :-( I would have been here earlier but I had a live stream to go to at 3:00. I think you might have missed some very pretty balconies about 3:00 or 3 and 1/2 minutes in at the beginning. I thought they were pretty. :-) I almost saw the swans. It's good that you mentioned that they were swans. Maybe a little slower with the planning? I remember back in the '80s a friend told me her last name and I asked where her family was from and she said Serbia and I had never heard of it because Wait a minute that was 1984. When did Yugoslavia break up? Well I'm going to have to look it up anyway. I will get to it. I had not heard of Serbia, Estonia, Latvia, but I had heard of Lithuania. Our Father took us to this Lithuanian club because they had his favorite pizza. Of course it was all the way in Brockton which was like 40 minutes away from home but we didn't get out much so that was okay :-) Hope the family is well. Not sure what is the difference between the EU and the European zone. I did hear that the Schengen area is different. I think it was when someone was talking about Bulgaria. People are diaspora-ing all over the place. Recently I have been to a supermarket in Turkey, a mall in Georgia, mountains in various places. England, but... It's England. Oh and Thailand I think. And a few other places. Saw some pretty Muscovy ducks in some part of Ukraine that may have been mentioned in some other video. But at least I know whose ducks they were. I do miss Poland. But I read the book. Again. It was actually the third time. It went faster the first two times. Probably because of no internet back in the '80s. And now I am reading a book about Lech Wałęsa. I still don't really have those letters on this keyboard but I put it in the dictionary because I was tired of misspelling it. Right now I'm in the late '50s. Things seem like they are going to start getting bad again. But they were briefly a little bit better. Oh well. Reading all of this stuff always makes me remember why Ukraine fights so hard. If Russia was next door to me, I would be fighting too. (I would be horrible at it and they'd probably kill me in the first 5 minutes but, I guess it would beat being tortured or having to live under their rule). How is your Polish going? I've been reading too many library books. About the country, not the language. Sadly the current one is copyright 1986 so I will not get to see any happy ending. It's still about 4 years in the future at least. Hard to believe people in Poland were still living in houses with dirt floors in the '40s and apparently the '50s. Just recently I reached a part about that great building in Warsaw that everybody hates. Apparently there are jokes about it. The book mentioned a couple and I've already forgotten one of them. Have you ever noticed how many Central and Eastern European flags have eagles? I need to watch BBC News and get the ducks in. Daylight savings time is over and it's getting dark. Thankfully it's shorter that it used to be. So nice to see you again.

[@dzonikg]

I can tell you about the eagle..its becase off Byzantium(east Roman empire) influence in middle ages in this part off europe..Nemanjic family which was ruling Serbian dynasty for 2 centuries in 12 and 13 century had same eagle in flag(but 2 eagle was also and before Nemanjic just different design) ,after Ottoman invasion that eagle was baned and removed from everywhere but still stayed in monasteries off Serbian orthodox church ..after Serbian uprising against Ottomans eagles were back to flags

[@elzbietasusdorf]

Cieszę się, że w konńcu jesteś ! Ale proszę (jak zwykle) o włączenie napisów 🙂🙂

[@Whatisthisstupidfinghandle]

English ones are there. They take a while to load so if you watch a video very quickly after it becomes available they might not be there yet

[@milankoprivica5981]

Great video bro!

[@mirjanamoore5417]

Bravo.

[@williamque7348]

Glad to have you back.

[@robertkukuczka6946]

Now Poland is endangered by a Russian rocket on the Polish side.

[@triggercky9928]

It was Ukrainian

[@redzmaja1805]

Ukraine

[@aviadilo]

@@triggercky9928 It was fired to shoot down an incoming Russian missile but missed. That day there was a huge Russian missile attack on Ukraine, including the Lviv region.

[@monikakacprzak4721]

Nareszcie!

[@miaemilia6462]

What happened James did you get scared because of the lost missile ? Are you leaving Poland? It’s still safe..

[@Tony-1950]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@swiety_eligiusz]

teraz nie jest czas na odwiedzanie krajów sympatyzujących z putinem. Gdzie po Serbi się wybierzesz ? Na Białoruś ?

[@BM-ur4je]

And so many wealthy Russian 'refugees' finding shelter and sympathy in Belgrade

[@hatraaku6841]

Serbia? which does not recognize NATO because it is an enemy. Serbia supports Russia against Ukraine. congratulations

[@jandzban739]

Are you surprised ??? Serbia was bombed by NATO :(

[@michachodkowski8499]

​@@jandzban739 becouse they support WAR CRIMINALS who did GENOCIDE

[@goransukovic8703]

Serbia is neutral regarding Ukraine war. All others picked a side. Some are in anti Russian hysteria, as well. It's ridiculous.

[@gustawkrzewicki1496]

It's not as important if it's his one of the most favourite country

[@lukacalov1988]

So what? Nato is the evil imo

[@lignosulfoni]

Friends of Russia…

[@MsMatthewClark]

So? Fuck politics.

[@lignosulfoni]

@@MsMatthewClark So, fuck Russians, fuck Russia

[@MsMatthewClark]

@@lignosulfoni I'm sick of you all who are obsessed with either loving or hating Russia. I don't give a fuck about it. Live your own life not someone else's. You don't have to visit Serbia if you don't like it. Nobody cares. Just don't judge others.

[@lignosulfoni]

​@@MsMatthewClark I judge Russians amd your goverment.

[@MsMatthewClark]

@@lignosulfoni I think it's pointless. Politics is a poison.

[@turkofalbanianorigine1629]

James i watched all of your videos i likes it but saying that serbs are friendly people here i don't agree with you,they attacked all neighbouring countries from Sllovenia to Republic of Kosova they commit huge massacres in Bosnia and Croatia

[@bognarossy9033]

Are you kidding me -Serbia is your favorite country .- wow 🫢Is Ukraine favorite to Serbian people ❓ 😜🤪

[@brankovucetic4448]

Why Ukraine must be favorite to Serbian people?

[@curious.lad.369]

Ukraine slav brothers ❤️

[@MsMatthewClark]

We are neutral towards Ukraine. We don't think about them. I guess they don't think about us as well.

[@bognarossy9033]

@@MsMatthewClark oh yeah the best to be neutral👎😜

[@MsMatthewClark]

@@bognarossy9033 Nobody cared when there was a war in my country so why should we. There are dozens of wars which are currently being fought throughout the world not only in eastern Europe.

[@AngelinaAndBrad]

It looks like he was pro russia as well :-/ Fool us all

[@bognarossy9033]

Its empty streets 😅

[@agsi7096]

So many graffiti very ugly

[@maciekszymanski8340]

Poles on the beginning were a cluster of different tribes but very quickly became a one nation. This pattern never worked in former Yugoslavia - I hate to say this but they sticked to their tribal mentality forever. Just imagine: I live in UK and I know some old blokes from Serbia and Croatia living in this town since IIWW. And they don't trust each other till now. It's crazy...

[@mirianakovachevic748]

Montenegro ( smallest republic )- top of tribal mentality.

[@milansavic2803]

Sorry, James, but Belgrade doesn't ends on the Danube waterfronts. On the other side of Danube is Kotez, and Krnjaca and Borca, one of the Belgrade's boroughs.

[@milansavic2803]

Dorcol is also considered as downtown, a centre of Belgrade